Saw a clip on Youtube of a guy who uses one of these food dehydrators to get a good paint bake quickly on models - temperature range 30c - 70c - thought i'd give it a go. Will let you know whether its worth the £45 invested.

10" x 5 1/2" fits inside the one i ordered - maybe 5-10mm spare. You can see in the pictures that there are a number of trays - you have to effectively cut out the centre of the trays apart from the bottom one (which the car rests on) and the cover - you need to do this to keep the height as each shelf is only about 1 1/2" deep.

Looks a great idea, Paul, will be very interested to see how you get on with it.

Is it me or does anyone else find yellow paints take longer to harden than other colours?! Would make a great test to pray yellow and see how long the paint takes to cure and how hard it becomes. I've had to reword that sentence, as it was a neat (rude) double-entendre!

Mind you, I expect SWMBO would blow a fuse if I bought one of these.... and no, that's not a double-entendre either!

as an American, temps he mentions will be farrenheit - dont try and bake a car at 110c :-)

UPDATE - cant vouch for yellow paint, but it works on bananas for a trial run! I'm a bit of a wuss when it comes to this type of thing, but the instructions say dont run it for more than 72hrs constant - not sure i'd feel happy running overnight/leaving unattended, but equally not sure of the implications of stop starting.

Cant remember if the clip says this, but i think warm paint is soft so you need to let it cool back down before handling. What we need is paint guru Colin Cazzo to opine on this!

Before cutting up the trays i might see if i can fashion a collar of thin plastic to get the height - that way if it doesnt work out i can sell it without a load of useless trays